Machine for lining eyeglass-cases.



No. 821,901. PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

' P. A. TIBBALS.

MACHINE FOR LINING EYEGLASS GASES. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12. 1902.

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UNITED srATEs PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. TIBBALS, OF l/VEYMOUTH CENTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO JJIL'lON E. DRAKE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR LINING EYEGLASS-CASES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

xatented. May 29, 1906.

To (ZZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it-known that I, FRANK A. TIBBALS, a citizen of the United States, residing at l/Veymouth Center, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hachines for Lining Eyeglass-Cases; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to an improvement in machines for lining eyeglasscases, and more particularly to machines for lining the boxes of eyeglass-cases.

Eyeglasscases are now very generally made of metal, covered with leather and lined with 1plush, such cases usually having an inward -bent li at the front of the box. The covering and lining operations have heretofore been performed solely by hand, so far as I am aware.

The principal object of the present invention is to produce a machine for lining the boxes, including the under side of the lip, at one operation.

To the above end the present invention consists in the devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of so much of the machine as is necessary for a description thereof, and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the plunger and appurtenant parts.

According to my invention, the eyeglasscase, having been covered on the outside and having had the lining secured to the inside of the lid, is inserted in the machine, whereupon pressing means engage the portion of the lin ing lying over the box (the inside of the box or the lining having first been coated with paste or other suitable adhesive material) and press the lining material down into the main portion of the boxthat is, the portion of the box not covered by the 1ipand then auxiliary pressing means engage the remaining portion of the lining material and press it in under the lip and against the portion of the bottom of the box covered by the lip and up against the under side of the lip.

My invention contemplates, broadly, the combination, with means for pressing the lining material into a portion of the box, of means for pressing such material into the remaining portion of the box, including the un der side of the lip. y

In the drawings the eyeglass-case 1, having had the covering material applied to its outside and the lining material applied to the lid of the box, is laid in a suitable eyeglass-casereceiving member, such as the form 2, conveniently positioned in the machine by being laid in the form-support 3, mounted upon the base 4 of the machine. Then the yieldingly supported main plunger 5, carried by the head 6 of the machine, being supported therefrom by the bolts 7 and normally pressed down by the springs 8, descends and engages the lining material lying over the main portion of the bottom of the box and presses the same down into the box, reviously coated with paste or other suitab e adhesive material, and securely affixes this portion of the lining thereto. During the continued downward motion of the head 6 the springs 8 yield. Then after the plunger firmly engages the main portion of the material and holds it in place the auxiliary plunger 9, shaped conveniently to embrace and support the main plunger 5, engages the roller 10, mounted on the arm 11, secured in turn on the rock-shaft 12, and turns said rock-shaft in its bearings 13, which are mounted upon the main plunger 5. The rock-shaft 12 has two arms 14 secured thereto at its ends, which carry the folding and pressing bar 15, which is moved by the means described to engage and press the remainder of the covering material against the bottom of the box under the lip 16 and against the under side of such lip. The springs 17, attached at their forward ends to the arms 14 and at their rear ends to the main plunger 5, operate to withdraw the bar 15 from its position illustrated in full lines in Fig. 1 to the position illustrated in dash-anddot lines in said figure, the front side of the main plunger being cut away, as shown, to permit such movement.

My invention is not limited to the specific form thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, as it may readily be embodied in other forms ofapparatus without departure therefrom. Thus my invention, viewed in its broader aspects, is not limited to the use of a yieldingly-supported plunger for pressing a portion of the lining into the box, as successively-acting positive-motion mechanisms might be employed to actuate the pressing instrumentalities. My invention is not limlted to the lining of eyeglass-cases, as the same may be employed forother purposes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. A machine for linin articles, having, in combination, a support for the article to be lined, a lurality of pressing members for engaging ifierent parts of the lining and pressing it into the article, and means for actuating the pressing members independently during the pressing operation, substantially as described.

2. A machine for lining articles, having, in combination, a support for the article to be lined, a presser for pressing a part of the lining into place and holding it, a presser for engaging another part of the lining and pressing it into the article in a difierent direction from the direction of pressure of the former presser, and means for successively actuating the pressers, substantially as described.

3. A machine for lining recessed articles, having, in combination, a main presser for lining the exposed part of the article to be lined, an auxiliary presser for lining the re cessed part, and means for actuating the pressers, substantially as described.

4. A machine for liningrecessed articles, having, in combination, a main presser for lining the exposed part of the article to be lined, an'auxiliary presser for lining the recessed part, and means for successively actuating the pressers, substantially as described.

5. A machine for lining recessed articles,

having, in combination, a main presser for lining the exposed part of the article, an auxiliary presser moving substantially at right angles to the direction of action of the main presser to line the recessed part of the article, and means for successively actuating the said pressers, substantially as described.

6. A machine for lining lipped eyeglasscases, having, in combination, a main plunger, a laterally-moving presser-bar, and means for actuating first the main plunger and then the presser-bar to line respectively the exposed part and the lipped part of the eyeglass-case, substantially as described.

7. A machine for lining lipped eyeglasstion substantially normal to the surface thereof, means for actuating the head, an auxiliary plunger carried by the head, a main plunger yieldingly mounted on .the head, a.

presser-bar and means for operating the presser-bar actuated by engagement with the auxiliary plunger and so located as to be engaged by the same after the head had moved enough to bring the main plunger into contact with the lining, substantially as described.

9. A machine for lining lipped eyeglasscases having, in combination, a support for an eyeglass-case, a head movable in a direction substantially normal to the surface thereof, means for actuating the head, an auxiliary plunger carried by the head, a main plunger yieldingly mounted on the head, a presser-bar, and means pivotally secured to the main plunger for supporting and actuating the presser-bar, the said means being so located as to be engaged and actuated by the auxiliary plunger to cause the presserbar to move laterally, substantially as described.

10. A machine for lining recessed articles, having, in combination, amain presser for lining the exposed part of the interior surface of the article, an auxiliary presser for lining the recessed part of the article, and means for actuating the pressers operating to move them first in unison so asto enter the article, and then to move the auxiliary presser away from the main presser and into the recessed part of the article, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FRANK A. TIBBALS.

Witnesses:

HORACE VAN EVER N, ALFRED H. HILDRETH. 

